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Vol. 78 No. 3 (2026)

6 articles Published 30 September 2026

In this issue

• Educational efficacy of an onsite training course in improving theoretical and practical skills in nailfold videocapillaroscopy among first-year rheumatology trainees: experience from the Italian Society of Rheumatology Inaugural Residential Program
• Anifrolumab as a therapeutic option in mixed connective tissue disease with autoimmune cytopenia: a case report and narrative review of the literature
• Comments on “An overview of the relation between tuberculosis and autoantibodies: a systematic review”
• An overview of the relation between tuberculosis and autoantibodies: a systematic review

All 6 articles

Table of contents

Previous issues

1. 2026

   

   Vol. 78 No. 2 (2026)

   7 articles Published 30 June 2026

   • Hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis: a rare presentation revealing systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren’s disease
   • Telerheumatology to improve first access outcomes in outpatients: a prospective monocentric pilot study
   • Delayed referral, socioeconomic status, and disease characteristics as factors associated with disabilities in rheumatoid arthritis patients: a multicenter observational study

   All 7 articles

2. 2026

   

   Vol. 78 No. 1 (2026)

   8 articles Published 16 March 2026

   • Macrophage activation syndrome and rapidly progressive lung disease as life-threatening manifestations of anti-MDA5 antibody disease. A case report
   • Long-term efficacy of intra-articular viscosupplementation in delaying hip osteoarthritis radiographic progression: a retrospective, non-controlled study from the ANTIAGE registry
   • Computed tomography of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis: dataset and deep learning model for pulmonary lesion segmentation

   All 8 articles

3. 2026

   

   Early Access

   2 articles Published 1 January 2026

   • Nailfold videocapillaroscopy as a diagnostic clue in interstitial lung disease: differentiating idiopathic from autoimmune patterns in a Caucasian cohort
   • Evaluation of the effect of rituximab on fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis using the Chalder Fatigue Scale

4. 2025

   

   Vol. 77 No. 4 (2025)

   11 articles Published 24 November 2025

   • The role of anifrolumab in reshaping the treatment landscape of extra-renal systemic lupus erythematosus
   • How the ultrasound protocol may improve the timely diagnosis of cerebrovascular complications in giant cell arteritis
   • The use of tumor necrosis factor inhibitors during high-risk pregnancies in antiphospholipid syndrome: a clinical report of a patient with concomitant Takayasu arteritis and case-based review

   All 11 articles

5. 2025

   

   Vol. 77 No. 3 (2025)

   10 articles Published 17 September 2025

   • Peripheral neuropathy in antiphospholipid syndrome: a systematic review
   • The role of leukemia inhibitory factor in autoimmune disorders: insights into recovery and treatment
   • Retention rate and predictor factors of drug discontinuation in axial spondyloarthritis: a focus on certolizumab and secukinumab

   All 10 articles

6. 2025

   

   Vol. 77 No. 2 (2025)

   10 articles Published 10 June 2025

   • Janus kinase inhibitors in rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease: where do we stand and what may be the future?
   • Tuberculosis infection in patients with dermatomyositis
   • To prophylax or not to prophylax? The role of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole as a prophylactic agent in systemic vasculitis: the case of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis and giant cell arteritis

   All 10 articles

7. 2025

   

   Abstract book of the 62th Conference of the Italian Society for Rheumatology, Rimini, 26-29 November 2025

   Vol. 77 No. s1 (2025)

   376 articles Published 25 November 2025

   • Welcome to the 62nd National Congress of the Italian Society of Rheumatology!
   • CO:01:1 | Efficacy and safety of rituximab across the four phenotypes of IgG4-related disease: a European multi-center cohort study of 115 patients
   • CO:01:2 | BAG3 in systemic sclerosis: possible therapeutic target and biomarker for pulmonary fibrosis

   All 376 articles

8. 2025

   

   Vol. 77 No. 1 (2025)

   12 articles Published 13 February 2025

   • In memoriam. Alfonse T. Masi
   • The holistic management of peripheral spondyloarthritis: focus on articular involvement in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
   • Inflammatory back pain as an unusual manifestation of Takayasu arteritis: a case report

   All 12 articles

9. 2024

   

   Vol. 76 No. 4 (2024)

   10 articles Published 17 December 2024

   • Ultrasound assessment of Achilles enthesitis: a dedicated training program
   • Systemic lupus erythematosus induced by anti-tumor necrosis factor α therapy in inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a case series
   • Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis is associated with greater complexity of coronary artery disease burden on coronary angiography

   All 10 articles

10. 2024

    

    Vol. 76 No. 3 (2024)

    11 articles Published 11 September 2024

    • Women and spondyloarthritis
    • The pink side of spondyloarthritis: a narrative review across pathogenesis and clinical manifestations in women
    • Gender differences in clinical features and quality of life of patients with axial spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis

    All 11 articles

11. 2024

    

    Vol. 76 No. 2 (2024)

    11 articles Published 24 June 2024

    • On the early uses of the word ‘gout’: novel evidence and a critical assessment of the published literature
    • Cross-cultural adaptation, reliability, and validity of the Turkish version of the Exercise Therapy Burden Questionnaire for individuals with chronic diseases
    • The impact of nicotine smoking on spondyloarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

    All 11 articles

12. 2024

    

    Vol. 76 No. 1 (2024)

    8 articles Published 22 March 2024

    • Post-diagnosis serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations in women treated for breast cancer participating in a lifestyle trial in Italy
    • Adult ocular adnexal xanthogranulomatous disease associated with immunoglobulin G4-related disease: an unusual association
    • Did the first description of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica take place in Scotland or in Denmark?

    All 8 articles

13. 2023

    

    Vol. 75 No. 4 (2023)

    12 articles Published 19 December 2023

    • Lumbosacral pain in a patient with psoriatic arthritis: when the rheumatic disease is innocent
    • Anti-tumor necrosis factor α: originators versus biosimilars, comparison in clinical response assessment in a multicenter cohort of patients with inflammatory arthropathies
    • Ultrasound imaging in crystal arthropathies: a pictorial review

    All 12 articles

14. 2023

    

    Vol. 75 No. 3 (2023)

    10 articles Published 18 September 2023

    • Clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with inflammatory and autoimmune rheumatological diseases admitted for intensive care in Colombia
    • Eosinophilic fasciitis in a young male auto mechanic exposed to organic solvents
    • Myositis after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination occurs more frequently than assumed and is probably causally related

    All 10 articles

15. 2023

    

    Vol. 75 No. 2 (2023)

    7 articles Published 17 July 2023

    • Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and gout
    • Pathergy-like reaction induced by laser hair removal in a patient with Behçet disease
    • Trends in severe outcomes in SARS-CoV-2-positive hospitalized patients with rheumatic diseases: a monocentric observational and case-control study in northern Italy

    All 7 articles

16. 2023

    

    Vol. 75 No. 1 (2023)

    8 articles Published 8 May 2023

    • Secukinumab retention rate is greater in patients with psoriatic arthritis presenting with axial involvement
    • Uveitis in patients with oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis and juvenile spondyloarthritis/enthesitis related arthritis: is there any difference?
    • Prof. Innocenzo Caruso

    All 8 articles

17. 2022

    

    Vol. 74 No. 4 (2022)

    7 articles Published 21 March 2023

    • The data project: a shared approach between stakeholders of the healthcare system in definition of a therapeutic algorithm for inflammatory arthritis
    • Emerging nailfold capillaroscopic patterns in COVID-19: from acute patients to survivors
    • The history of antiphospholipid syndrome

    All 7 articles

18. 2022

    

    Vol. 74 No. 3 (2022)

    8 articles Published 29 December 2022

    • Comment to: Disseminated cutaneous herpes simplex, COVID-19 vaccination and rheumatoid arthritis patient: a case report and review
    • Medical English
    • Nailfold capillaroscopy in the rheumatological current clinical practice in Italy: results of a national survey

    All 8 articles

19. 2022

    

    Vol. 74 No. 2 (2022)

    7 articles Published 13 September 2022

    • Disseminated cutaneous herpes simplex infection after COVID-19 vaccination in a rheumatoid arthritis patient: a case report and review
    • Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and their experience with vaccination against COVID-19: a descriptive and explanatory study
    • Evaluating the readability, quality and reliability of online information on Behçet’s disease

    All 7 articles

20. 2022

    

    Vol. 74 No. 1 (2022)

    7 articles Published 3 May 2022

    • Herpes zoster seven days after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis under adalimumab
    • The prevalence and clinical spectrum of post-Covid syndrome in patients with rheumatic diseases: a single-center experience
    • Musculoskeletal syndrome treated with global postural re-education in double-redo lung transplantation: a case report with an 8-month follow-up

    All 7 articles

21. 2021

    

    Vol. 73 No. 4 (2021)

    6 articles Published 31 December 2021

    • Psoriasis and family history of psoriasis may not affect disease severity of rheumatoid arthritis
    • The Italian Society of Rheumatology clinical practice guidelines for the management of large vessel vasculitis
    • Biclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome

    All 6 articles

22. 2021

    

    Vol. 73 No. 3 (2021)

    6 articles Published 22 November 2021

    • A systematic literature review of existing tools used to assess medication adherence in connective tissue diseases: the state of the art for the future development of co-designed measurement tools
    • An ancient, yet current, experience of deficient architecture: the case of Doge
    • Herpes zoster infection following mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis

    All 6 articles

23. 2021

    

    Vol. 73 No. 2 (2021)

    7 articles Published 3 August 2021

    • Accuracy of synovial fluid analysis compared to histology for the identification of calcium pyrophosphate crystals: an ancillary study of the OMERACT US Working Group - CPPD subgroup
    • Subclinical TRAPS treated with canakinumab
    • The Italian Society for Rheumatology recommendations for the management of axial spondyloarthritis

    All 7 articles

24. 2021

    

    Vol. 73 No. 1 (2021)

    11 articles Published 20 April 2021

    • The Institute for the History of Rheumatology, an offspring of the Italian Society of Rheumatology, is born in Venice
    • Voriconazole-induced periostitis
    • Assessment of patients affected by rheumatoid arthritis eligible for biotechnological agents and evaluation of their healthcare resource utilization and related costs

    All 11 articles

25. 2020

    

    Vol. 72 No. 4 (2020)

    8 articles Published 18 January 2021

    • Successful therapeutic plasma exchange in cold autoimmune hemolytic anemia in patient with disseminated tuberculosis
    • Top 100 cited articles on ankylosing spondylitis
    • Vitamin D and disease severity in coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19)

    All 8 articles

26. 2020

    

    Vol. 72 No. 3 (2020)

    10 articles Published 19 November 2020

    • Psoriatic spondyloarthritis and Sjögren syndrome: a casual association?
    • Systemic lupus erythematosus and infections
    • Effect of an oral preparation containing hyaluronic acid, chondroitin sulfate, hydrolyzed collagen type II and hydrolyzed keratin on synovial fluid features and clinical indices in knee osteoarthritis. A pilot study

    All 10 articles

27. 2020

    

    Vol. 72 No. 2 (2020)

    10 articles Published 23 July 2020

    • Clinical practice guidelines for patients with polymyalgia rheumatica: the need for an active involvement of all stakeholder is still unmet
    • Pronounced dys-autonomic symptoms announcing a primary Sjögren’s syndrome
    • Different fracture risk profile in patients treated with anti-osteoporotic drugs in real-life

    All 10 articles

28. 2020

    

    Vol. 72 No. 1 (2020)

    8 articles Published 10 April 2020

    • Association between red cell distribution width and response to methotrexate in rheumatoid arthritis
    • Gitelman syndrome associated with chondrocalcinosis and severe neuropathy: a novel heterozygous mutation in SLC12A3 gene
    • The Italian Society of Rheumatology clinical practice guidelines for the management of polymyalgia rheumatica

    All 8 articles

29. 2019

    

    Vol. 71 No. 4 (2019)

    9 articles Published 28 January 2020

    • Adult-onset systemic autoinflammatory disorders: a clinical approach
    • Erysipelas-like presentation of Wells’ syndrome (eosinophilic cellulitis)
    • Macrophage activation syndrome as a complication of rheumatologic disorders, a report from Iran

    All 9 articles

30. 2019

    

    Vol. 71 No. 3 (2019)

    9 articles Published 24 October 2019

    • Antibodies to extractable nuclear antigens (ENAS) in systemic lupus erythematosus
    • Spa therapy induces clinical improvement and protein changes in patients with chronic back pain
    • Don’t forget the jumper’s knee in the young sportsman: evaluation of patellar tendinopathy with a high frequency ultrasound probe

    All 9 articles

31. 2019

    

    Vol. 71 No. S1 (2019)

    4 articles Published 23 September 2019

    • Providing updated guidelines for the management of rheumatic diseases in Italy with the ADAPTE methodology: a project by the Italian Society for Rheumatology
    • The Italian Society for Rheumatology clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of knee, hip and hand osteoarthritis
    • The Italian Society for Rheumatology clinical practice guidelines for rheumatoid arthritis

    All 4 articles

32. 2019

    

    Vol. 71 No. 2 (2019)

    13 articles Published 9 July 2019

    • Health-related quality of life burden in scleroderma patients treated with two different intravenous iloprost regimens
    • Vitamin D: no efficacy without deficiency. What’s new?
    • Radiological features of knee joint synovial chondromatosis

    All 13 articles

33. 2019

    

    Vol. 71 No. 1 (2019)

    10 articles Published 1 April 2019

    • Novel autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis
    • Poncet’s disease diagnostic criteria decodes conundrum: Poncet’s vs pseudo Poncet’s
    • A rare disease with a rare presentation: hemi-atrophy caused by fibromuscular dysplasia in a 27 month old girl

    All 10 articles

34. 2018

    

    Vol. 70 No. 4 (2018)

    10 articles Published 20 December 2018

    • Paraneoplastic rheumatic disorders: a narrative review
    • Thermal alterations in patients with inflammatory diseases: a comparison between psoriatic and rheumatoid arthritis
    • Nailfold videocapillaroscopy in antisynthetase syndrome

    All 10 articles

35. 2018

    

    Monographic issue on Histopathology in Rheumatic Diseases

    Vol. 70 No. 3 (2018)

    7 articles Published 3 October 2018

    • Histopathology of the synovial tissue: perspectives for biomarker development in chronic inflammatory arthritides
    • Histopathology of the muscle in rheumatic diseases
    • Histopathology of salivary glands

    All 7 articles

36. 2018

    

    Vol. 70 No. 2 (2018)

    12 articles Published 6 July 2018

    • RETRACTION: Pain in systemic sclerosis
    • Association between anti-citrullinated alpha enolase antibodies and clinical features in a cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a pilot study
    • Acute myocarditis as a revealing clue of complete Kawasaki disease

    All 12 articles

37. 2018

    

    Monographic issue on Polymyalgia Rheumatica

    Vol. 70 No. 1 (2018)

    8 articles Published 27 March 2018

    • Pathogenesis of polymyalgia rheumatica
    • Perspectives and unmet needs in polymyalgia rheumatica. Providing the fundamental framework for the development of new treatment regimes in polymyalgia rheumatica
    • Contribution of the new 2012 EULAR/ACR classification criteria for the diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica

    All 8 articles

38. 2017

    

    Vol. 69 No. 4 (2017)

    8 articles Published 21 December 2017

    • Subcutaneous administration of tocilizumab is effective in myointimal hyperplasia remodelling in refractory Takayasu arteritis
    • Microvascular damage evaluation in systemic sclerosis: the role of nailfold videocapillaroscopy and laser techniques
    • Large vessel vasculitis: is it more common than usually assumed?

    All 8 articles

39. 2017

    

    Vol. 69 No. 3 (2017)

    11 articles Published 21 September 2017

    • A rare form of anemia in systemic lupus erythematosus
    • In memoriam: Ignazio Olivieri
    • Assessment of treatment effects on digital ulcer and blood perfusion by laser speckle contrast analysis in a patient affected by systemic sclerosis

    All 11 articles

40. 2017

    

    Vol. 69 No. 2 (2017)

    7 articles Published 3 August 2017

    • Comorbidities and related factors in rheumatoid arthritis patients of south India- Karnataka Rheumatoid Arthritis Comorbidity (KRAC) study
    • First report of anti-TIF1γ dermatomyositis in a patient with myelodysplastic syndrome
    • Acute heart failure and rhabdomyolysis: a clue for the diagnosis of polymyositis with cardiac involvement

    All 7 articles

41. 2017

    

    Vol. 69 No. 1 (2017)

    7 articles Published 22 May 2017

    • Mesenchimal stem cells: a possible role in the pathogenesis and treatment of spondyloarthritis
    • Granulomatosis with polyangiitis in Tunisia
    • A case of false positive Troponin I in a patient affected by cryoglobulinemic vasculitis

    All 7 articles

42. 2016

    

    Vol. 68 No. 4 (2016)

    7 articles Published 31 December 2016

    • Relationship between patient-reported and objective measurements of hand function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
    • Spontaneous soft tissue haemorrhage in systemic lupus erythematosus
    • The onset site of rheumatoid arthritis: the joints or the lung?

    All 7 articles

43. 2016

    

    Vol. 68 No. 3 (2016)

    8 articles Published 16 December 2016

    • Aseptic HLA B27-positive spondylodiscitis: decreased 18F-FDG uptake after etanercept treatment
    • Evidence-based algorithm for diagnosis and assessment in psoriatic arthritis: results by Italian DElphi in psoriatic Arthritis (IDEA)
    • B cell autoimmunity and bone damage in rheumatoid arthritis

    All 8 articles

44. 2016

    

    Vol. 68 No. 2 (2016)

    11 articles Published 9 September 2016

    • Critical finger ischemia and myocardial fibrosis development after sudden interruption of sildenafil treatment in a systemic sclerosis patient
    • New approved drugs for psoriatic arthritis
    • Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis with erythema nodosum and polyarthritis

    All 11 articles

45. 2016

    

    Vol. 68 No. 1 (2016)

    4 articles Published 23 June 2016

    • Gitelman syndrome disclosed by calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease: early diagnosis by ultrasonographic study
    • Slipped capital femoral epiphysis in adults: case report and review of literature
    • Guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention and management of osteoporosis

    All 4 articles

46. 2015

    

    Vol. 67 No. 4 (2015)

    6 articles Published 23 December 2015

    • Systemic vasculitis in a patient with rhupus syndrome
    • Lifestyle and dietary habits of patients with gout followed in rheumatology settings
    • The signal transducer and activator of transcription factors lodge in immunopathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis

    All 6 articles

47. 2015

    

    Vol. 67 No. 3 (2015)

    8 articles Published 30 December 2015

    • Interferon gamma-inducible protein 16 (IFI16) and anti-IFI16 antibodies in primary Sjögren’s syndrome: findings in serum and minor salivary glands
    • Myasthenia gravis due to hydroxychloroquine
    • Rheumatoid trigger wrist

    All 8 articles

48. 2015

    

    Vol. 67 No. 2 (2015)

    7 articles Published 16 September 2015

    • Sarcoidosis presenting as orbital pseudotumor
    • Chronic pain: the burden of disease and treatment innovations
    • The economic burden of musculoskeletal disorders on the Italian social security pension system estimated by a Monte Carlo simulation

    All 7 articles

49. 2015

    

    Vol. 67 No. 1 (2015)

    8 articles Published 30 June 2015

    • Cytomegalovirus ileocolitis in a rheumatoid arthritis patient: case report and literature review
    • Sjögren’s syndrome and mean platelet volume
    • A method for counting monosodium urate crystals in synovial fluid

    All 8 articles